posted on July 2, 2001 08:24:39 PM
Is anyone else getting an eBay banner stuck in their face when they use the back button on their browser. This happens in both IE and Netscape.
When I click on an item to view it, then use my back button I get an eBay banner on a blank screen for about 3 seconds. It stays there long enough so that I could click on it if I wanted to and the banner is always advertising some eBay product, service or link.
This never used to happen, and now it happens all the time. I use two browser windows with two separate searches at the same time so I don't have to look at these things staring me in the face.
Was just wondering if anyone else was experienceing this or is my computer losing its marbles. Maybe I'm losing my marbles. Trying to deal with eBay seems to do that to me these days!
Typo edit!
[ edited by goldensands on Jul 2, 2001 08:25 PM ]
posted on July 3, 2001 02:51:42 PM
Sounds like a JavaScript "feature" being used, IMO. Among other (rarely useful) things, JS allows the webpage to "hijack" the usual function of typical buttons and icons on a page, such as replacing the Close action of clicking on the "X" button, and instead prompt the appearance of another ad banner. It also adds (rarely useful, or at least rarely necessary) baggage such as pop-up windows (which I've always hated, whether for ads or non-ad content -- if I want extra windows, I'll make extra windows ) and the newer variation known as pop-under windows, which are ads that appear behind your browser, out of sight until you start closing off normal windows.
I switched JavaScript off years ago, and since then find very few sites that make me want to turn it back on even temporarily -- and even fewer that really need the JS in the first place! You may find your browsing experience a lot less annoying if you do the same, but that might depend on the batch of sites you typically visit. IE will let you differientiate between sites, however, allowing you to turn "scripting" off for some sites and leave it on for others (through the Security tab on Tools | Options).
Ah, for the days of cookie-less, unanimated, non-pop-up, non-pop-under banner ads. I actually used to click on some of these (and still sometimes do, where they still exist).
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
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[ edited by dc9a320 on Jul 3, 2001 02:54 PM ]
) and the newer variation known as pop-under windows, which are ads that appear behind your browser, out of sight until you start closing off normal windows.